The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-08-26
LATE NEWS.

| the progress of the negotiations for tin
| settlement of the fisheries question
there are others in public life who ar,
| quite familiar with the subject, and pro
| vided they are not quoted by name
equally willing that this knowledge
should be made public. One of these
gentlemen said to-day: "Mr. Bayard i:
giving his personal attention to the fish
cries question. Long before the close o.
the present Administration it will have
been settled, and, l trust, for all time
Thus far nothing had occurred to man
the gradual adjustment of the difficulties
the State Department dealing directly
with the Foreign Office, and the English
Minister here, Mr. West, has no con-
nection with the affair further than to
act as a medium of communication be-
tween the two Governments Neither
does the State Department recognize the
Dominion Government in the negotia-
tons, but beyond doubt the Ottawa
officials are consulted regarding every
new point that aries, but that of course
is something which concerns the British
Foreign Office. 1t may be six months,
and it may be year before new treaty
may he agreed upon, but it is sure to
come.
A dispatch from Antwerp, August 9Th,
says: 1t is currently reported that the
Berlin Government is about to construct
just beyond the railway station at Sitpel-
peld, near the Dutch frontier on German
territory, twenty-six sidings, each long
enough to hold train with 1900 men,
ready to be conveyed by the grand cen
trail line from AK La ChapelIe to Ant
werp. Gradient platforms will be estab-
ished at this military station for the
landing of cavalry, and reservoir will
be constructed for the purpose of supply
ing locomotives. The whole works will
cost 100000 marks. The German
''Etat Major" which has 300,0 900 men
concentrated in the fortresses between
Cologne, Dusseldorf, AK, etc, estimates
that, with such preparations, within an
hour it would be in position to throw
$4,000 troops upon Maestrecht to occupy
the bridge there, and to prevent the
Dutch from blowing it up. The bridge
is already undermined for military pur-
poses. The German "Etat Major" is
contemplating measures to put the Gov
eminent in position to throw an army of
$50, 900 men under the walls of Antwerp
in twenty-four hours notice.
BRUssELs, August 8th.-A vast fire
broke out in Heisogenwold, on the Ger
man Belgic frontier, in forest which
extends for twenty-five leagues in Bel
gian- German territory on the road from
Verviers to AK La Chapelle. The fire
began on the German side OF the line,
and is spreading rapidly. The woods on
the Belgian side are in sheet OF fame
for over mile and a quarter, and the
fire is spreading toward the district
known as Les Hautes Fagnes. If the
fire reaches the great peat boys that are
in that neighborhood it is feared that it
may last for weeks. The origin Of the
disaster has not yet been discovered.
Cry OF MEXICO, August 4th.-The
Treasury officials are greatly pleased
with the outlook for the success. of the
new tariff put in force July LIST. The
tariff has now been in operation one
month, and the results are justifying
the expectations OF the OriginatOrs. AT
Vera Cruz goods are piling up in the
in such quantities as to
overtask the capacity of freight trains,
and the merchants of that port are be-
ginning to believe its prosperity is as
sured. Heavy consignments of Ameri-
can and European goods are beginning
10 come into this city and the Central
Railway cannot find box cars enough to
carry it's freights, which is due not only |
20 the increase of international business, |
out also to the remarkable development |
If the interior freight traffic.
NEW YORK, August 3d.-Three years
400 w. r. Vanderbilt erected a very |
swell poultry house and yard to his
country place, on Long Island, and in |
Vested in lots of choice fowl. A man
FAMED H. C. Tams took charge last
spring, and he took partner and |
opened depot in this city for the sale
II the product. One month ago Wander
,ilt started on a cruise around the
world in his yacht Alva. Tams has
ince improved the opportunity by sell |
ng out the poultry establishment, even
O the shingles and the wire fences, and
an away with the proceeds, about |
8 900.
SPRINGFIELD, H., August 3. - The
Governor to-day received a communica-
ion from the State Board OF Live Stock
Commissioners to effect that since the
outbreak of contagious pleuro-pneu-
1onia in Cook county they have
laughtered over eighty thousand head
f cattle. At the present time the cattle
the quarantine district are in almOS |